Top 567 Architect Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.
It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the
architect of what happens.
I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.
My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.
I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.
There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?
Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?
I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.
I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.
My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.
My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.
